Act No. 581

Public Acts of 2004

Approved by the Governor

December 30, 2004

Filed with the Secretary of State

January 4, 2005

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 4, 2005

STATE OF MICHIGAN

92ND LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2004

Introduced by Rep. Newell

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 6103

AN ACT to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled "An act to protect and promote the public health; to codify, revise, consolidate, classify, and add to the laws relating to public health; to provide for the prevention and control of diseases and disabilities; to provide for the classification, administration, regulation, financing, and maintenance of personal, environmental, and other health services and activities; to create or continue, and prescribe the powers and duties of, departments, boards, commissions, councils, committees, task forces, and other agencies; to prescribe the powers and duties of governmental entities and officials; to regulate occupations, facilities, and agencies affecting the public health; to regulate health maintenance organizations and certain third party administrators and insurers; to provide for the imposition of a regulatory fee; to provide for the levy of taxes against certain health facilities or agencies; to promote the efficient and economical delivery of health care services, to provide for the appropriate utilization of health care facilities and services, and to provide for the closure of hospitals or consolidation of hospitals or services; to provide for the collection and use of data and information; to provide for the transfer of property; to provide certain immunity from liability; to regulate and prohibit the sale and offering for sale of drug paraphernalia under certain circumstances; to provide for the implementation of federal law; to provide for penalties and remedies; to provide for sanctions for violations of this act and local ordinances; to provide for an appropriation and supplements; to repeal certain acts and parts of acts; to repeal certain parts of this act; and to repeal certain parts of this act on specific dates," by amending section 20908 (MCL 333.20908), as amended by 2000 PA 375.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 20908. (1) "Nonemergency patient" means an individual who is transported by stretcher, isolette, cot, or litter but whose physical or mental condition is such that the individual may reasonably be suspected of not being in imminent danger of loss of life or of significant health impairment.

(2) "Nontransport prehospital life support operation" means a person licensed under this part to provide, for profit or otherwise, basic life support, limited advanced life support, or advanced life support at the scene of an emergency.

(3) "Nontransport prehospital life support vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is used to provide basic life support, limited advanced life support, or advanced life support, and is not intended to transport patients.

(4) "Ongoing education program sponsor" means an education program sponsor that provides continuing education for emergency medical services personnel.

(5) "Paramedic" means an individual licensed under this part to provide advanced life support.

(6) "Patient" means an emergency patient or a nonemergency patient.

(7) "Person" means a person as defined in section 1106 or a governmental entity other than an agency of the United States.

(8) "Professional standards review organization" means a committee established by a life support agency or a medical control authority for the purpose of improving the quality of medical care.

(9) "Protocol" means a patient care standard, standing orders, policy, or procedure for providing emergency medical services that is established by a medical control authority and approved by the department under section 20919.

(10) "Statewide emergency medical services communications system" means a system that integrates each emergency medical services system with a centrally coordinated dispatch and resource coordination facility utilizing the universal emergency telephone number, 9-1-1, when that number is appropriate, or any other designated emergency telephone number, a statewide emergency medical 2-way radio communications network, and linkages with the statewide emergency preparedness communications system.

(11) "Statewide trauma care system" means a comprehensive and integrated arrangement of the emergency services personnel, facilities, equipment, services, communications, medical control authorities, and organizations necessary to provide trauma care to all patients within a particular geographic region.

(12) "Volunteer" means an individual who provides services regulated under this part without expecting or receiving money, goods, or services in return for providing those services, except for reimbursement for expenses necessarily incurred in providing those services.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 92nd Legislature are enacted into law:

(a) House Bill No. 6102.

(b) House Bill No. 6104.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor